PIRSA:15020115

Doing Physics with Shape Dynamics

(2015). Doing Physics with Shape Dynamics. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/15020115

Doing Physics with Shape Dynamics. Perimeter Institute, Feb. 25, 2015, https://pirsa.org/15020115 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:15020115,
            doi = {10.48660/15020115},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/15020115},
            author = {},
            keywords = {Other},
            language = {en},
            title = {Doing Physics with Shape Dynamics},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2015},
            month = {feb},
            note = {PIRSA:15020115 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }
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Shape Dynamics is a theory of gravity which replaces relativity of simultaneity for spatial conformal invariance, maintaining the same degree of symmetry of General Relativity while avoiding some of its shortcomings.

In SD several kinds of singularities of GR become unphysical gauge artefacts, and the presence of a preferred notion of simultaneity fits better into the structure of quantum theory. In this talk I will outline the present status of research in SD on black holes and gravitational collapse, on the emergence of spacetime and on the first-order formulation of the theory.